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(Reuters) - A U.S. judge said Wal-Mart Stores Inc does not deserve dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by concealing suspected corruption at its Mexico operations, even after learning that a damaging media report detailing alleged bribery was being prepared. U.S. Magistrate Judge Erin Setser in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Thursday recommended denying Wal-Mart's request to dismiss the lawsuit led by a Michigan pension fund against the world's largest retailer and former Chief Executive Officer Mike Duke.

Plans for a Mundelein Wal-Mart took a step forward recently, as officials approved a preliminary incentive agreement with the owner of the Oak Creek Plaza shopping center that would provide village assistance with moving a creek on the property. The owner of the property, Ronald Boorstein, said moving the creek and bringing in the Wal-Mart were connected from day one, but two trustees who sat at the negotiating table for the discussions said Boorstein used the Wal-Mart deal as leverage for the creek relocation.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc has appointed a new chief executive for the China region, where the world's largest retailer is battling stiff competition from local rivals. Sean Clarke, a Wal-Mart veteran and current chief operating officer in China, will take over the China CEO role from June 1, a statement from the firm said on Friday. The current China chief executive, Greg Foran, will become Asia CEO. China is key to Wal-Mart's international ambitions but it has stumbled in a market where consumers value safe and authentic food over the low prices the retailer is famed for. Wal-Mart has been in China for 17 years.

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said former Chief Executive Officer Lee Scott and board member Chris Williams will not stand for re-election to the retailer's board. Scott will complete his service as director at the company's annual shareholders' meeting on June 6, "in line with Walmart's historical practice for its prior CEOs' Board service," the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Scott had joined Wal-Mart in 1979 and served as its chief executive officer from 2000 till 2009.

Workers at an Indiana warehouse owned by Wal-Mart on Thursday filed unfair labor charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the staffing agency that employs them and the company that operates the warehouse. The workers allege they were forced to work without heat during the extreme cold weather earlier this year. They have signed a petition asking for higher wages, a path to full time employment and a safe work environment. Two workers who asked their colleagues to sign the petition claim they were illegally fired. David Fields, one of the workers who was fired, said he began organizing his colleagues when he learned that some had worked at the warehouse for three winters without heat.